Board of Trustees

Malaria Consortium is governed by a Board of Trustees, which meets quarterly and for its Annual General Meeting (AGM). A Finance and Audit subcommittee monitors the finances of the organisation, meeting at least quarterly, and makes recommendations to the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees takes the major strategic decisions for the organisation. Every year Trustees are invited to visit programmes in the field to ensure they are fully informed about Malaria Consortium’s activities at country level. Day-to-day operational decision-making is delegated to the Executive Director, who, with the Senior Management Team, runs the organisation.

Our Board of Trustees are:

• Stephen O’Brien MP - Chairman
  
• Dr. Brian Doberstyn
  
• Dr. Penelope Key OBE
• Dr. Garth Glentworth
• Prof. Whitney Addington
• Dr. Geoffrey Butcher
• William Chalmers
• Richard Page
• Roger Wilson
• Roger Cousins
• Ian Boulton
• Tim Armstrong

• Rt. Revd Bishop Dinis S Singulane (Honorary Patron)
• HE Prof. Gilbert Bukenya

Chairman

Stephen O’Brien, MP
Stephen O’Brien has been Conservative MP for Eddisbury since July 1999, and is Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care. He qualified and practised as a solicitor in the City of London before taking up senior executive positions as a manufacturing industrialist at Redland PLC (building material producers).  He is Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases Group, as well as the All Party Group on Tanzania, and Vice-Chair of the Aid, Trade and Debt Group. Stephen became Chairman of the Malaria Consortium in December 2006.  He is also Vice-Chairman of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and a Director of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium.

Trustees 

Dr Penelope Key, OBE 
A medical doctor with tropical public health and international health systems development expertise, she has worked in many overseas locations, notably Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, India and West & South Africa. She has worked for UN, government and voluntary sector, including WHO, ODA (now DFID), church missions and UK-based secular NGOs; lately her work has concentrated on reconstruction and rehabilitation of health systems and services in the very poorest countries, post-conflict situations and the needs of most vulnerable people.

Dr Edward Brian Doberstyn
Brian Doberstyn is a medical doctor, a paediatrician by training, who has worked with the US Navy (NAMRU-5 in Ethiopia), the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Bangkok and Washington, and then with WHO for 23 years, in Bangkok, Geneva, Cambodia and Manila.  He headed a WHO malaria team in Thailand, and later re-established the WHO office in Cambodia, following the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime.  In Geneva, he was TDR Secretary for malaria chemotherapy research, WHO chief of malaria research, and then chief of the headquarters malaria unit.  He was WHO Representative to Thailand for 10 years and retired as director of communicable diseases in the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in Manila.  He lives in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.

Dr Garth Glentworth, OBE
Garth Glentworth retired after 28 years with the UK Department of International Development, latterly as a Senior Governance Adviser for Africa."Governance" is a composite of all aspects of public sector performance plus politics, law, policing, media-an ever widening agenda. He has also worked in South and South -East Asia and in Eastern and Central Europe . He has played a major part in developing capacity building responses to governance problems and in training governance advisers in DFID. One of the major concentrations is on service delivery especially in post conflict, fragile states such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan.

Dr Whitney Addington
Whitney W. Addington is Senior Executive of Chicago Metropolis 2020 and an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has been a Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, Rush Medical College and the University of Chicago and has published extensively on clinical chest disease, public health, and has a special interest in tuberculosis and malaria.  Dr. Addington has received a number of honors, most recently, the Alfred Stengel Medal of the American College of Physicians for lifetime service to the College and the medical profession. He has led People-to-People Ambassador Programs to China in 2000 and to Cuba in 2003. In 2006, Dr. Addington was selected President of the American Friends of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Dr Geoffrey Butcher
After two years as a science teacher in Nigeria in the 1960s, Geoff worked full time on research into malaria, initially at Guy’s Hospital on the possibility of developing a vaccine, then at various other institutions in the UK and Australia on other aspects of the subject until retirement. He is an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at Imperial College London and when not reading or writing about malaria, visits schools and adult groups to talk about it. He is also a volunteer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where the search for new antimalarials is one of their interests.

William Chalmers
William Chalmers is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley.  He is co-head of the European Financial Institutions Group at Morgan Stanley, advising a range of European banks on a variety of strategic and corporate finance issues.  William also has a legal background, qualifying in the US.  William has recent experience in the charitable sector, sitting on the board of Community Food Enterprises.

Roger Wilson
Roger Wilson is an international development professional, who worked for DFID. His experience includes governance as Chief Governance Adviser, country programme management (Malawi, Zambia & India); public service reform in UK and developing countries, structuring project financing with a merchant bank and commodity trading in the London commodity markets. He now works as a consultant on governance.

Richard Page
After working as an industrial statistician to the Malawi Government, Richard qualified as an accountant with Marconi and H.J.Heinz. He then lectured in Business Studies before returning to industry with Fisons Fertilisers. His senior positions have been with Kafue Textiles of Zambia as CFO and then as CEO; CFO at Nanyuki Textiles Mills in Kenya then as Finance Director in engineering and manufacturing companies in UK. He is presently the Director of Finance with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Magistrate.
 
Ian Bolton
Ian Boulton is currently the Managing Director of TropMed Pharma Consulting. He previously worked for 34 years in the pharmaceutical industry, with 19 years spent in Asia. He has experience in General Management, Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Corporate Acquisitions, and R&D. For the last 8 years with GlaxoSmithKline, he was one of the leaders of their Diseases of the Developing World Initiative. He has been a Board Member of the RBM Partnership, has advised the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria on their pricing and product quality policies, and is currently a member of the Fund’s Market Dynamics Committee. He is a Chartered Scientist and Charetered Chemist as well as being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, of the Chartered Management Institute, and of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

Patrons

Rt. Revd Bishop Dinis S Singulane (Honorary Patron)
Dinus Singulane is an Anglican Bishop of Libombos in Lichinga, Mozambique. He serves as the chair of the Mozambican Role Back Malaria programme which has provided a great deal of support to Mozambique’s Ministry of Health and other partners. He became an Honorary Patron of Malaria Consortium in 2006.

Professor Gilbert Bukenya
Gilbert Bukenya, Vice President of Uganda, a former researcher on malaria and dean of Makerere Medical School, Kampala, Uganda is a fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene and the Royal Society of Health. He will chair the advisory committee of the Malaria Consortium regional office in Uganda.